T Quotes
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“The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually listened fully to what the other one was saying.”
“The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”
Source: Runaway
“The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price of the neighbor's house, what's on sale this week, our clothes or someone else's, the best car on the market this year, where to spend a vacation. Apparently we can't stop eating, shopping, or consuming. Success is measured not in terms of love, wisdom, and maturity but by the size of one's pile of possessions.”
Source: The Signature of Jesus
“The conversation of those who like to lord it over us is very disagreeable. But we should always be ready to graciously acknowledge the truth, no matter in what guise it comes to us.”
“The conversation of two people remembering, if the memory is enjoyable to both, rocks on like music or lovemaking. There is a rhythm and a predictability to it that each anticipates and relishes.”
Source: The state of Stony Lonesome
“The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.”
“The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.”
“The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.”
Source: Orphan Sky
“The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.”
Source: People Who Knock on the Door
“The conversation should've been about middle class people. The conversation should've been about how to raise the minimum wage and strengthen Social Security. But then we started talking about this whole email stuff again. And now the outcome is that, you know, Donald Trump has somebody who he's looking at to put on his Cabinet who's a lobbyist to privatize Social Security.”
“The conversation that the Senate and the House are having with the President [Barack Obama] was very similar to the conversation that [John] McCain and I were having, which was two people talking over each other and nobody really addressing the underlying issues of what kind of country do we want to be.”
“The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play; it is whether I am going to play at all.”
Source: Jonny: My Autobiography
“The Conversation was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is.”
“The conversation was like the sort one has in dreams—mad but interesting.”
Source: I, Claudius
“The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creates its own easy or awkward rhythms, hidden talk that runs like a subterranean river under even the most banal exchange.”
Source: Spin
“The conversation was slow, halting. Audrey asked me no questions about England or Cambridge. She had no frame of reference for my life, so we talked about hers”
Source: Educated
“the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.”
Source: With Malice Toward Some
“The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni Morrison - you are not in any way dead, in many ways you are intensely alive.”
“The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.”
“The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of the dining car, and the certain knowledge that neither of us would see each other again.”
“The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“The conversations about a film are an example of success because then you know whatever you've done has resonated.”
“The conversations have been cordial. [Donald Trump] has been open to suggestions, and the main thing that I've tried to transmit is that there's a different between governing and campaigning, so that what he has to appreciate is as soon as you walk into this office after you've been sworn in, you're now in charge of the largest organization on Earth.”
“The conversations that follow are gratifying for Connell, often taking unexpected turns and prompting him to express ideas he had never consciously formulated before. They talk about novels that he's reading, the research she studies, the precise historical moment that they are currently living in, the difficulty of observing such a moment in process.”
Source: Normal People
“The conversations that follow are gratifying for Connell, often taking unexpected turns and prompting. him to express ideas he had never consciously formulated before. They talk about novels that he's reading, the research she studies, the precise historical moment that they are currently living in, the difficulty of observing such a moment is process.”
Source: Normal People
“The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having.”
“The converse held reassuringly true: daylight was safe. Daylight was always safe.”
Source: M Is for Magic
“The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.”
Source: The Making of a Man of God (Alan Redpath Library): Lessons from the Life of David
“The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.”
“The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“The conversos were thus both a troubled and troublesome population in late fifteenth century Castile.”
Source: Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen
“The Conveyor Belt
Conceived, carried, cut out, torn, born,
slapped, named, numbered,
needled, drugged, stodged, stuffed,
shod, shorn, collared, tied, capped,
herded, classed, seated, schooled,
brought up, put down, labelled a sinner,
smacked, caned, loved, deceived, cuffed,
suited, sorted, thwarted,
broken, tamed, healed, polished, ironed,
worked, used, taxed, mortgaged, owned,
chiselled, chained, oiled, tanned, plastered,
tempted, failed,
wired, subscribed, registered, addicted,
hitched, kidded, hounded, feared,
poisoned, sickened, pilled,
nipped, tucked, wigged,
bedded, heart attacked.
Freed!
Buried, burned, mourned and forgotten..
Next Please!”
Source: Topsy-Turvy World - Vegan Anarchy
“The conviction is well founded, which the sight of noble conduct calls forth, that the spirit of love... can never pass away and become nothing.”
Source: The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
“The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.”
“The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief in the necessity of the victory of a revolutionary new order on this globe.”
Source: Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated
“The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism.”
Source: ON NATIVE GROUNDS An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature
“The conviction reigns that it is only through the sacrifices and accomplishments of the ancestors that the tribe exists--and that one has to pay them back with sacrifices and accomplishments; one thus recognizes a debt that constantly grows greater, since these forebears never cease, in their continued existence as powerful spirits, to accord the tribe new advantages and new strength.”
Source: On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
“The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.”
“The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.”
“The conviction that everyone in this house must be dead had gained such a hold on Magnus that it was a shock when the woman who had summoned him here opened the door.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“The conviction that life has a purpose is rooted in every fibre of man, it is a property of the human substance. Free men give many names to this purpose, and think and talk a lot about its nature. But for us the question is simpler. Today, in this place, our only purpose is to reach the spring. At the moment we care about nothing else. Behind this aim there is not at the moment any other aim. In the morning while we wait endlessly lined up in roll-call square for the time to leave for work, while every breath of wind penetrates our clothes and runs in violent shivers over our defenceless bodies, and everything is grey around us, and we are grey; in the morning, when it is still dark, we all look at the sky in the east to spot the first signs of a milder season, and the rising of the sun is commented on every day: today a little earlier than yesterday, today a little warmer than yesterday, in two months, in a month, the cold will call a truce and we will have one enemy less. Today the sun rose bright and clear for the first time from the horizon of mud. It is a Polish sun, cold, white, distant, and only warms the skin, but when it dissolved the last mists a murmur ran through our colourless numbers, and when even I felt its lukewarmth through my clothes I understood how men can worship the sun.”
Source: Survival In Auschwitz
“The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at anearly age is wrong. There is simply no evidence to support it, and considerable evidence against it. Starting children early academically has not worked in the past and is not working now.”
Source: Images of the Young Child: Collected Essays on Development and Education
“The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.”
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“The conviction that we have always-already known everything that is worth knowing, and that everything we knew is only confirmed—never rejected—by science, has prevented us from developing an ethos of honest inquiry. The compulsion to establish harmony with the core of the Vedic worldview has held back the progress of science in the past, and will continue to hold us back if we continue to go down this path.”
Source: Science In Saffron: Skeptical Essays On History of Science
“The conviction which we must share and spread is that the call to holiness is directed to all Christians. This is not a question of privilege or of spiritual elitism. It is a question of a grace offered to all the baptized.”
“The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has both the conviction and the freedom. Many agree with me, have the conviction, but will not act. Some act, assassinate, bomb, burn, etc., but they are the crazies. Crazy acts by crazy people. But what if one, sober, reasonable, and honorable man should act, and act with perfect sobriety, reason, and honor? Then you have the beginning of a new age. We shall start a new order of things.”
Source: Lancelot
“the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.”
Source: Conversations with Lillian Hellman
“The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.”
Source: Dune Messiah